SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 222, 3 February 1865, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. January 30—Sea Serpent, brigantine, 90 tons, Blair, for the coast. January 31 Esther, schooner, 70 tons, Campbell, for the coast. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Beautiful Star, from Sydney, daily. Star of the South, s s., from Sydney, dally, Tawera, schooner, from Auckland, hourly. VESSELS IN POET. Strathallan, ship, from London. Superintendent’s cutter, from Auckland. Eliza, echooner, from Wairoa. Kauri, schooner, for Auckland. MISCELLANEOUS. A VorAGF, m a Tub.—The steamer Mullogh left Port yesterday morning at 1.30 a.m., and when below Gollan’s Bay, the men perceived something in the water which resembled a boat a-drift, on luffling up to her they saw it was a large tub with a man seated in it. They hailed him and ran close on to the craft, and sent her spinning. The man jumped on board, and the tub was also hauled on deck. The Mullogh proceeded on her passage, on arriving at the Heathcote about three in the morning; the man gave his preservers leg bail, he left his tub behind him as a souvenir. The man, it appears was one of the seamen from the Eastern Empire, and was escaping in the deck tub, he was provisioned with a bottle of rum, and he had one of bis sea boots filled with biscuits, the other boot he was using as a bailer, one of his paddles was broke. It was a good thing for him he was picked up, as a sou’wester was blowing him out to sea.— Evening Hail. Arrival or the Viscount. Canning.— The barque Viscount f anning, 751 tons. Captain 'Wright, formerly here in the ship Katherine Stewart Forbes, anchored in the harbor at XI p.m. on Saturday, after a tedious passage of 134 days from the Downs. She passed through the Downs on the 20th September, had to beat down Channel, and took her final start from the Lizard on the 28th September, passing to the east of Madeira on the 7th October. Experienced very light N.E. trades, losing them in BT7 N., and afterward had the wind south until the 4th November, when the equator was crossed in 29’ W. longitude. Had S.E. trades for five days, and then light and baffling winds for six days. Made Tristan d’ Achunia on the 30th November, and stood off and on for two days, for the purpose of obtaining water and fresh provisions. Unsettled weather 'prevailed afterwards, until making the Three Kings on the 19th instant. She ran down her easting between 27 - 24 N., longitude 19’42 W., the ship Ramsay was spoken, bound from London to Otago, 24 days out; and on the 27th November the ship Agnes Lee, from Kingston to Simon’s Bay, with troops, 69 days out.— N. Z. Herald. The Viscount Canning brings 168 passengers. Screw Steamer Neptune— A bottle was recently picked up on the beach at Bridgewater containing a manuscript, of which the following is a copy, so far as can be determined, the paper being much injured and the ink faded by the bottle having admitted the sea-water.- The blanks are left to indicate that the manuscript was destroyed or illegible, and a word is quoted to show that there was some uncertainty in deciphering it: —“ Screw steamer Neptune, Robert Kerr, commander, left Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, for Sydney, N.S.JV., on Tuesday noon, 17th May, 1864, and was on Monday noon, 20th Juno, 1864, in lat. 40 , 5 8., long. 128-30 E., 34 days out. Passengers—Mr. Kerr and three children, E. Knl DiaharTartson. Masters Hhog, and E. Knl Tartson, and many other steerage passengers. . , . . . tho carpenter, who Is, however, now. . . . . ’ . Steamer Neptune is nearly breaking—under sail only at about two knots the hour. Order Just given to get up steam. Whoever picks this up is requested to be so good as to forward it for publication in. ... of the Cape Town papers, for the information of little Harwitt and others, at present residing at the Cape, and to whom it would prove interesting, Screw steamer Neptune at sea, 30th June, 1864. Barometer, 30-5; Micrometer, 62V’— Portland Chronicle, December 84.